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World Film Festivals - August 2010

Six Australian films at TIFF

August 30th 2010 04:16
The Toronto International Film Festival has selected four new Australian feature films and two new Australian documentaries to premiere at the 2010 event.

Blame (w/d: Michael Henry, p: Ryan Hodgson, Melissa Kelly, Michael Robinson), Griff the Invisible (w/d: Leon Ford, p: Nicole O’Donohue) and Wasted on the Young (w/d: Ben C Lucas, p: Janelle Landers, Aidan O’Bryan) will screen in Toronto’s Discovery program. The Discovery program is a showcase for innovative new filmmakers. Toronto represents the world premiere of Griff the Invisible, the story of an office worker by day and a superhero by night whose world is turned upside down. The film stars Ryan Kwanten and Maeve Dermody.

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Awgies announced for 2010.

August 30th 2010 03:18
Scriptwriters and playwrights from around Australia came out from behind the scenes on Friday 20 August at the 43rd Annual Australian Writers’ Guild AWGIE Awards. The awards celebrated excellence in performance writing across film, television, theatre and radio.

Comedy led the charge this year with Gina Riley and Jane Turner taking out the prestigious 2010 Fred Parsons Award for Special Contribution to Australian Comedy. Other comedy awards included the Comedy – Situation or Narrative Award, which went to hit ABC series - Lowdown:Who’s Your Buddy, by Amanda Brotchie and Adam Zwar, who also starred. The team from Good News Week won the gong for Comedy – Sketch or Light Entertainment for The Opening Ceremony 2009.

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First Factual Film Festival

August 30th 2010 03:05
The First Factual Films Festival (F4) is an unrivalled professional development opportunity for Australia’s emerging documentary filmmaking talent. Selected F4 First Filmmakers not only gain high profile documentary marketplace exposure through Australasia’s key market event – the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) - in 2011 they are invited to screen as part of the BigPond Adelaide Film Festival (BAFF).

Filmmakers at the start of their careers are selected to participate in a screening program alongside documentary masters attending AIDC. During the conference, the selected F4 First Filmmakers are guided through a bespoke series of workshops and meetings with relevant industry professionals to help bridge the gap between making their first film and entering the professional marketplace.
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ACEFEST Tickets & Event Info.

August 26th 2010 07:22
After sifting through over 1,000 submissions from coast to coast, the ACEFEST selection commitee is proud to present the 2010 ACEFEST Program Schedule! This year, there is something for everybody, with an eclectic lineup of feature films, shorts, animations, documentaries, video art and more.


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GRIFF goes to Toronto

August 26th 2010 07:09
Transmission Films have just announced that the highly anticipated film, GRIFF THE INVISIBLE has been selected to screen at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival (September 9-19) – one of the most prestigious and key film festivals on the world film calendar. The film will be presented as part of the Discovery programme.

GRIFF THE INVISIBLE is a fresh, highly-original comedic love story from the wildly fertile imagination of debut feature film writer / director, Leon Ford


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GASLAND free screenings

August 26th 2010 06:02
Beginning August 27th in Pittsburgh, Rooftop Films, The Fledgling Fund, and International WOW Company will present a special six city tour of Josh Fox’s powerful new documentary Gasland, which exposes the horrific effects of a new type of natural gas drilling called hydraulic fracturing. The tour will bring screenings of the film to some of the areas most seriously affected by this type of drilling, including Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania and Callicoon, Syracuse, and New York City in New York. The tour is part of Rooftop's ongoing expansion into new cities.

New Yorkers, join us on September 11th for our New York City show and spread the word to friends in Pennsylvania and Upstate New York.
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Oscar® Noir” Meets its End with “White Heat”

August 25th 2010 07:05
“White Heat” (1949), featuring the return of James Cagney to the gangster genre that made him a star, will be screened as the final feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees from Hollywood’s Dark Side” on Monday, August 30, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The film will be introduced by writer, producer, director and five-time Oscar® nominee Paul Thomas Anderson.

“White Heat,” which stars Cagney as Cody Jarrett, a mother-obsessed escaped convict, was directed by Raoul Walsh from a screenplay by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. It received an Academy Award® nomination for Writing – Motion Picture Story (Virginia Kellogg).
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Win Tickets to Russian Resurrection 2010

August 25th 2010 05:58
Commencing in Melbourne from tonight 25 August, the 7th annual Russian Resurrection Film Festival is now the largest showcase of Russian cinema outside of its homeland. Back even bigger and better than ever in 2010, the Festival continues to offer an exciting and diverse line-up of the most recent smash hit and multi-award winning films to come out of the world’s largest county. The festival this year will again be presenting must-see Q&A’s with visiting Directors, an in-depth retrospective of past cinematic treats and rarities, and hosting the most highly anticipated opening night celebrations in each state, awash with pure Russian entertainment and hospitality.


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Zombies, Anime, Madman

August 25th 2010 05:19
Braaaaiiiins1..... *shuffle* *shuffle* ....Braiiiiiiiinnss!....

Beware, step aside, get out your Zombrex, heft your baseball bats and chainsaws - we have a zombie infestation!
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La Biennale de Venezia 2010 starts Sept 1.

August 25th 2010 04:48
The 67th Venice International Film Festival, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, will run 1st to 11th September 2010 at Venice Lido.

The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote all the various aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and tolerance. The Festival includes retrospectives and homages to major figures as a contribution towards raising awareness of the history of cinema.
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CALL FOR ENTRIES TO PLUS CAMERIMAGE COMPETITIONS

August 25th 2010 04:15
We have a great pleasure to inform that the selection process for the competitions of the 18th Edition of the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography PLUS CAMERIMAGE 2010 has begun. You can now submit your films and music videos.

PLUS CAMERIMAGE is the biggest international film festival devoted to the creation of a film image by the cinematographers. The aim of the competitions being a part of the Festival is to present films and music videos of high visual values. The presented works will be judged by panels of international Jury who will grant the winners our prestigious awards.
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I VIEW FILM FESTIVAL 2010

August 25th 2010 03:02
Engendered, the transnational arts and human rights organization is proud to present I VIEW FILM FESTIVAL 2010. The festival is scheduled to screen over 25 features and documentaries from September 18th-26th at the Tribeca Film Center and Asia Society in New York City. All screenings will be followed by discussions and panels with key cast members, film personalities, and academics to emphasize critical dialogue that is integral to the festival.

I VIEW FILM FESTIVAL 2010 is a trailblazing film festival that brings together a body of bold and contemporary cinematic work that provides a new lens with which to view South Asian Cinema. This cutting edge cinematic and entertainment extravaganza brings together contemporary South Asia’s most vital voices in film. Ranging from art-house/independent to mainstream Bollywood; festival favorites to under-the-radar docs; classics to experimental & avant-garde; the festival features a dynamic selection from the entire continuum of South-Asian cinema.
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Is The Girl Who Played With Fire hiding in your city?

August 23rd 2010 04:46
To celebrate the August 27th release of The Girl Who Played With Fire, Momentum Pictures are offering a unique opportunity to fans in Bristol, London, Oxford, Nottingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Newcastle, Dublin, Liverpool, Sheffield and Manchester to take part in a nationwide search for ‘The Girl’ and win amazing prizes!


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PITCH COMPETITIONS: MONEY AND PRIZES TO BE WON!

August 23rd 2010 04:39

CHANNEL 4 FIRST CUT PITCH
Five contenders will compete in front of a panel of television executives, including Channel 4 Commissioning Editors. Everything from the candidates’ CVs to their pitching skills will be under scrutiny. The prize: a 10-12 week placement to direct a half-hour film with a £50 000 budget for Channel 4’s critically-acclaimed documentary new talent strand, ‘First Cut.’
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MPA APSA FILM FUND ATTRACTS STRONG LINE-UP.

August 23rd 2010 04:25
Motion Picture Association (MPA) President and Managing Director Asia Pacific, Mike Ellis has announced that Ronin Films Managing Director Andrew Pike will sit on the judging panel for the inaugural MPA APSA Academy Film Fund.

The announcement was made from the Australian International Movie Convention (AIMC) on Australia's Gold Coast where Mr Ellis reported that in just two weeks a strong calibre up of submissions had already been received for consideration in the US$100,000 script development fund which was formed earlier this year in partnership with the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA).
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WIN TICKETS TO TIFF OPENING NIGHT.

August 23rd 2010 04:14
WIN Tickets to the Toronto International Film Festival® Opening Night Film and Party

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Big City Big Dreams party.

August 23rd 2010 03:58
Today's Filmmaker Panels are Free!

We realize the weather is a bit undesirable today so this afternoon's Filmmaker Panels are now free to attend. This is an amazing opportunity to get up close and personal with some of this year's selected filmmakers. Hear behind-the-scenes stories, production tales and participate in a Q&A


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Seeking writers of character...

August 20th 2010 06:13
Screen Australia proudly presents Character Building – a unique new development initiative that offers professional screenwriters of drama the opportunity to galvanise their character writing skills and enhance the reach of their screenplays.

The five-day workshop is a bespoke collaboration between Screen Australia and leaders in the development field, UK Script Factory, looking to films such as Juno, Lars and The Real Girl and Little Miss Sunshine as examples of stories that offer audiences engagement with complex, unorthodox and compelling characters bedded within quite simple stories


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Sydney filmmakers take top gongs in SCINEMA awards

August 20th 2010 05:53
Screen NSW has congratulated producers Susan MacKinnon & Anna Cater from Mitra Films and director Stefan Moore for winning the Director's Choice Award at the 2010 SCINEMA Festival of Science Film with their documentary Honeybee Blues.

Inaugurated in 2000, SCINEMA is an internationally competitive festival of science film in all its form. Conceived as a way to forge new links between the sciences and the arts, SCINEMA celebrates science through the medium of film, and acknowledges outstanding examples of film-making across all age ranges


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AFTRS Opens its Doors.

August 20th 2010 05:37
Open Day at the Australian Film Television and Radio School is a fantastic opportunity for potential students to get a feel for the intensive hands-on training and state of the art facilities they can expect from the national screen arts and broadcast school.

This is where previous graduates such as Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah), Gillian Armstrong (Death Defying Acts, Oscar and Lucinda), Jane Campion (Bright Star, The Piano) and Phillip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof Fence, Salt) honed their skills before going on to international success.
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BIFF in the BURBS

August 20th 2010 04:47
This year’s St.George Bank BIFF in the Burbs is back and it’s bigger and better than ever before with the line up promising adventure, animation, action and best of all animal fun!

Presented by Screen Queensland, the St.George Bank BIFF in the Burbs is an entre to Queensland’s largest film festival the St George Bank Brisbane International Film Festival


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Citizens of UGC!

August 19th 2010 04:44


After the terror of the recent air raids we are now formally announcing a full evacuation of the city under the ‘Civil Defence Act’ & ‘Emergency Powers Regulations’ of 1944. All persons committed to departure must have their papers and belongings in order as soon as possible. Failure to secure papers may prevent you from departure through UGC regulated checkpoints and travel may not be guaranteed. Please be aware that travel passes are limited. Official evacuation dates are 28th Aug at 8pm & 29th Aug at 4pm.
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Morgana Davies - a star in France!

August 19th 2010 04:13
Morgana Davies, the 8-year-old star of the new Australian/French film THE TREE, who wowed audiences at this year’s Cannes Film Festival with her extraordinary performance, is set to become a film star in France when the film opens this week in more than 230 cinemas across the country.


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Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF)2010

August 19th 2010 02:54
MUFF XI will run from August 20 to 28 at three venues across Melbourne; the Classic Cinema in Elsternwick, Thousand Pound Bend in the CBD, and Open Channel's Shed 4 Cinema in the Docklands.

Opening Night at the Classic will see the highly anticipated release of Stuart Simpson's El Monstro Del Mar; a truly unique monster movie set in Melbourne's own Port Phillip Bay. Pitting sexy and treacherous femme fatales against a terrifying creature from the deep, El Monstro is in equal measures funny and fearsome, and is sure to delight fans of 70s exploitation movies.
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Russian Resurrection 2010 Da!

August 17th 2010 03:04
The vodka is on standby; and what a star-studded line-up of Russki films awaits the opening of Thursday nights Russian Resurrection.

The nationwide Russian cinematic feast will feature 29 films over 32 days, including 17 new releases, award-winners and box office record-breakers which range from historical epics to moving dramas, adventures, comedies and for the first time, a 3D animation feature film, Belka & Strelka: Space Dogs in 3D (2010).
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Sydney Underground Special offer!

August 13th 2010 07:19
OPENING NIGHT PARTY
OFFER $30/$25 TIX
Join the crew on Thursday 9 September 6:00pm and see the 2010 festival opener - Australian premiere of Oliver Stone’s new film SOUTH OF THE BORDER. Entertaining, confronting, and provocative, Stone sets out on a road trip to explore the social and political movements and the mainstream media’s misperception of South America while interviewing its elected presidents.
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NEIL MARSHALL WEEKEND.

August 12th 2010 14:03
In anticipation of the nationwide release of his latest thriller Centurion, Manhattan’s IFC Center will host NEIL MARSHALL WEEKEND, a special two-night retrospective of the films of acclaimed writer/director Neil Marshall. Marshall will be present to introduce midnight screenings of his modern classics The Descent on Friday, August 13 and Doomsday on Saturday, August 14.


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Expendables team up with Charity Organisation

August 12th 2010 07:02
Lionsgate (UK), whose hard-hitting action thriller, THE EXPENDABLES, opens in Britain’s cinemas on Thursday 19th August, has formed an alliance with The ForceSelect Foundation, which was recently set up to raise funds for military charities in the United Kingdom.

Numerous proposals to help the Foundation are currently under discussion, including Lionsgate’s support for the charity at the film’s premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square on Monday 9th August, which will be attended by writer-director Sylvester Stallone and his fellow stars Jason Statham and Dolph Lundgren.
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Life in a Day submissions in.

August 12th 2010 06:28
Submissions for YouTube’s Life in a Day project came to a close on Saturday, July 31, 2010, with the total number of submissions reaching 80,000 and representing 197 countries, in 45 different languages. Of the results, Executive Producer Ridley Scott (Robin Hood, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down) said, “I'm thrilled at the success of the Life in a Day project to date. The sheer number of uploads to the channel is astonishing and exceeds our expectations. I'm as fascinated as anyone by what kind of videos people have uploaded and the kind of film which will result from this innovative endeavor.”


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Will Ferrell and Uma Thurman pics start production.

August 12th 2010 05:53

Emilio Diez Barroso and Darlene Caamano Loquet of NALA Films announced that they are teaming up with Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Kevin Messick and Jessica Elbaum of Gary Sanchez Productions to produce the Spanish-language comedy, CASA DE MI PADRE (HOUSE OF MY FATHER), starring Will Ferrell. NALA Films is fully financing the project which is set to start shooting this September in California.

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Second Hand Wedding - Review

August 12th 2010 04:29
SECOND-HAND WEDDING is an intimate, endearing look at the relationships within a middle-class New Zealand family.

RELEASE DATE : 29 July 2010


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THE OTHER Film Festival.

August 9th 2010 07:04
Australia’s only disability film festival, THE OTHER FILM FESTIVAL, will be held at Melbourne Museum from 25 to 29 August. The Festival screens contemporary cinema by, with and about people with a disability.


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Academy to Re-premiere John Ford’s 1927 Film “Upstream”

August 9th 2010 06:49
“Upstream,” a 1927 silent film by director John Ford that was thought lost for decades, will be re-premiered by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday, September 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The film will be presented under the Academy’s “Lost and Found” series banner.

“Upstream” is one of 75 American films recently found at the New Zealand Film Archive and repatriated to the United States. The films were rediscovered when Brian Meacham, an archivist for the Academy, dropped in on his New Zealand counterparts while on vacation. During Meacham’s tour of the archive, he asked if there were any American films represented in the collection. A thorough search revealed numerous titles including three feature films that were thought to be lost. “Upstream” is the first of the features to be preserved and screened for the public. The preservation work was carried out by Park Road Post Production in Wellington, New Zealand, under the direction of Twentieth Century Fox and the Academy Film Archive.
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LAST EXORCISM -Trailer and POster

August 9th 2010 06:39
After a career spent helping the devout through prayer and trickery, Reverend Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) invites a film crew to document his final fraudulent days as an exorcist. Soon his faith is truly tested when a desperate plea from the father of a possessed girl (Ashley Bell) brings him face to face with evil itself.


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LANFRANCHI’S MEMORIAL DISCOTHEQUE

August 7th 2010 05:06
PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF

LANFRANCHI’S MEMORIAL DISCOTHEQUE

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Voice Artists Speak Up.

August 7th 2010 04:50
The artists who voice Dug the Dog, Minnie Mouse, Natasha Fatale, Rocky the Squirrel and Winnie the Pooh will sound off at “Voices of Character,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 16th installment of the Marc Davis Celebration of Animation, on Thursday, August 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

Hosted by animation historian Charles Solomon, the event will feature onstage discussions with such legendary voice artists as Jim Cummings (Winnie the Pooh), Susan Egan (Meg of “Hercules”), June Foray (Natasha Fatale and Rocky the Flying Squirrel), Yuri Lowenthal (Ben Tennyson) and Russi Taylor (Minnie Mouse), along with animation director Bob Peterson (who voices Dug the Dog in “Up”), animator James Baxter and casting executive Rick Dempsey


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25 World Premieres to screen at Toronto

August 7th 2010 04:45
The first 50 films were added to the Festival lineup this week, and 25 are World Premieres.

Robert Redford, Michael Winterbottom, Guillaume Canet, John Cameron Mitchell, Kiran Rao, Mike Mills and Andrucha Waddington are just a few of the directors bringing their new films to Toronto this September


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FUTURE SHOTS IS BACK FOR 2010!

August 6th 2010 06:14
Calling all young Victorians with a vision for a sustainable future

Are you aged 5 to 25 and want to win some great cash and prizes? The Future Shots Sustainability Film Challenge is now open. For the second year running, Future Shots invites all Victorians 25 and under to create a short film of under three minutes addressing the theme of sustainability.
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SPAA registration now open.

August 6th 2010 05:51
SPAA is pleased to announce that online registrations for the 2010 SPAA Conference are now open.

Over 700 Australian and international delegates will gather at the Hilton, Sydney this year to celebrate 25 years of SPAA Conference. Wednesday 16th November the conference kicks off with Margaret Pomeranz, legendary film reviewer, delivering the Hector Crawford Lecture. This will be followed by three days of keynote presentations, panel sessions, networking parties, screenings, pitching opportunities, markets and one on one sessions


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Review – SKIN.

August 5th 2010 05:36
A dark skinned girl born to white South African parents attempts to explore her identity in the era of apartheid as her government, her parents and society as a whole struggle with what it means to be the black child of white parents in a nation deeply divided by race.

RELEASE DATE : July 22 2010
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UGC - its a secret!

August 5th 2010 05:13
THIS TELEGRAM JUST IN...

By direction of the UGC government and people you are hereby ordered to active duty effective immediately [stop] you are to report to your closest command centre listed below within 48 hours [stop] all checkpoints are armed and there is no passage without authorization [stop] be warned that willful failure to report promptly will be considered an offence and the violator is punishable under the national UGC selective training and services act 1940 [stop]
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Exclusive Joss Weddon Talk and After Party.

August 3rd 2010 03:52
Your chance to meet one of the most prolific writing and directing forces in popular culture today.

JOSS WHEDON - FROM BUFFY TO DR HORRIBLE, INFINITY & BEYOND...
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A CONTRACT WITH GOD to start filming.

August 3rd 2010 03:38
Legendary comic book master Will Eisner's groundbreaking graphic novel "A Contract with God" is being adapted into a live action feature film, it was announced recently at Comic- Con International 2010 by the film's producers. In what is considered by many to be one of the most influential graphic novels ever written, in "A Contract with God" Eisner utilizes the comic book format in an innovative and pioneering way to explore stories and memories from his childhood growing up in a New York City tenement. Each tale captures the brutality, fragility, and tenderness that exists among people living in close quarters in challenging economic times.

A quartet of acclaimed independent directors are attached to direct each of the graphic novel's four adjoining chapters: Alex Rivera ("Sleep Dealer"); Tze Chun ("Children of Invention"); Barry Jenkins ("Medicine for Melancholy"); and Sean Baker ("Prince of Broadway," MTV's "Warren the Ape"). The film will be produced and adapted for the screen by Darren Dean, whose first feature "Prince of Broadway," about an illegal immigrant in contemporary New York City, is being released this fall and whose second feature, Rwanda-shot "Kinyarwanda" (directed by Alrick Brown) is in post-production, due for a festival bow in 2011.
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LA SHORTS winners announced.

August 1st 2010 05:22
The 2010 LA Shorts Fest ended July 30, 2010 with its awards ceremony at Capitol City Hollywood, 1615 N.Cahuenga Boulevard, Hollywood, CA 90028.

Now in its 14th year, the screenings were held at Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theatre, 8000 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90048, from July 22 to July 29, 2010.
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